Message to the World

Note: When our military gets its wrong, we own up to it and deal with it!

Probe Clears GIs of Misconduct at Ishaqi
By KIM GAMEL

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military said Saturday that it had found no wrongdoing by American troops accused of intentionally killing civilians during a raid in a village north of Baghdad that left up to 13 Iraqis dead.

The investigation of the March 15 attack on a home in the town of Ishaqi was one of three probes into possible misconduct by American troops in Iraq. U.S. Marines are also accused of deliberately killing two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians in the western town of Haditha on Nov. 19 after one of their own died in a roadside bombing.

Besides Haditha and Ishaqi, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman could face murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges in the April shooting death of an Iraqi man west of Baghdad.

The investigation of the attack in Ishaqi concluded that the U.S. troops followed normal procedures in raising the level of force after they came under fire while approaching a building where they believed was an al-Qaida terrorist was hiding, said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a U.S military spokesman.


While I'm at it, I'm going to throw a couple monkey wrenches into the Haditha inquiry:

• If it really was an unprovoked massacre of innocent civilians, how come there wasn't any rioting?? Haditha is a stronghold of terrorism and we all know how the MSM loves to hop on any story making us look bad,...so, why no rioting?
• Speaking of impartial journalism, if Haditha really went down as reported, wouldn't al-Jazeera be broadcasting it, 24/7?

Just a few things to think about, Congressman Murtha!